| Jane
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| Nationality - Scottish |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 1910
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Date of death - 1976 |
| Place of birth
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Jane Duncan was the Pseudonym for Elizabeth Jane Cameron: she also wrote as Janet Sandison. She was born in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, 10 March 1910.
She graduated from Glasgow University and served in the WAAF during World War II. She lived in Jamaica for ten years, returning to Scotland in 1958 on the death of her husband.
Still in Jamaica, in need of money and facing the prospect of widowhood, she submitted a novel to an agent in London, and, when it was accepted, revealed that she had completed six further manuscripts. They became the first volumes in the My friends, series, which eventually comprised 19 titles.
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My friends the Miss Boyds (1959), an immediate success on publication, begins the story of Janet Sandison, the narrator and central character of the series.
Janet's life in the novels corresponds closely to the author's own, and Duncan's autobiographical work Letter from Reachfar (1975) identifies the source of many of her fictional characters and events.
Duncan's chief contribution to children's literature is a series of five books written about the Cameron family. These imaginary children are based on the author's own nieces and nephews - one sister (the eldest), two brothers a little younger, and a much smaller brother, Iain. Iain - or Nink as he is known to his family - is retarded, and the loving relationship between Nink and the rest of the family may well prove helpful to many readers in similar situations. |
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